Who was it who said, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice…”?
There’s no doubt that the incoming administration has its plate more than full with a whole spectrum of disasters. But there is some unfinished business that we can’t allow to slip into the memory hole. Over the past eight years untold numbers of people within the U.S. Government have committed crimes of an epic nature. As Ian Welsh
at Firedoglake points out:
The SAME people who were responsible for Nixons’ crimes, were responsible for Iran/Contra. They and their proteges came back and were responsible for Bush, Iraq, torture, screwing up Katrina and so on.
But we’re supposed to let bygones be bygones so they can do it again in the next Republican administration.
If these crimes are allowed to go unpunished, the rule of law will be seriously damaged. This is not about revenge; it’s about justice. A desire to “let bygones be bygones” is misguided in an insidious way. That’s not bringing us together. That’s letting people get away with murder.
Tags: democratic enablers, republican hypocrisy, rule of law
